Waistband construction



Sep 2 1960 J. 'MlNT ZER 2,953,791

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Filed June 16, 1958 INVENTOR. JACOB MINTZER MR W ATTORNEY Sept. 27, 1960 Filed June 16, 1958 J. MINTZER WAISTBAND CONSTRUCTION 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 5

INVENTOR. JACOB MINTZER MN-W ATTORNE] United States Patent WAISTBAND CONSTRUCTION Jacob Mintzer, 411 Hastings Ave., Havertown, Pa.

Filed June 16, 1958, Ser. No. 742,200

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-236) The present invention is directed to a novel waistband construction and method for making the same.

In the manufacture of trousers, it has long proved desirable to cover the inside stitching at the seam be tween the waistband and the body of the trousers with a liner which does not reveal raveled or loose edges. In expensive trousers, this is conventionally accomplished by the use of the so-called hand top technique. However, such technique which involves a great deal of hand sewing is both diflicult and expensive and is not suitable for high speed modern production techniques.

Present day techniques for incorporating a waistband onto trousers which are practiced on high speed assembly lines using sewing machines suifer from the disability that either the flaps of the seam joining the Waistband to the body of the trousers are presented to view, or the canvas edge or the liner edge or both are presented to view. While present day techniques are rapid and relatively cheap the resultant product is unsightly.

This invention has as an object the provision of a novel waistband construction.

This invention has as another object the provision of a novel method for making such waistband construction.

This invention has as a still further object the provision of a waistband construction which is most attractive and which closely simulates the appearance achieved by a waistband having a hand top.

This invention has as yet another object the provision of a method for forming a waistband construction which achieves the attractiveness of ahand top type waistband construction, but which is entirely machine made.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention there is shown in the drawings forms which are presently preferred; it being understood, however, that this invention is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.

Referring to the drawings, wherein like reference characters refer to like parts:

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a fragmentary portion of trousers revealing the first stage in the process of the present invention, namely the sewing of the waistband to the body of the trousers.

Figure 2 is a view similar to that of Figure 1 revealing a later stage in the process of the present invention, namely the joinder of the bottom waistband lining to the trousers.

Figure 3 is a diagrammatic view similar to that of Figure 1 revealing a still later stage in the process of the present invention than that shown in Figure 2, namely the joinder of the top waistband lining to the trousers.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view revealing the final stage of the trouser construction of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective view similar to that of Figure 4 but revealing a modified construction in accordance with the present invention.

Referring to the drawings and initially to Figure 1, the first stage of the process of the present invention'involves the sewing together of the waistband to the trousers body 12 along the seam 14. No particular claim of invention is made to the waistband, per se, or to the trousers body, per se, and any of the wide variety of conventional waistband and trouser body constructions can be used in the present invention. Thus, the trousers body 12 includes the pockets 16 and 18 of conventional construction.

The seam 14 joining the waistband 10 to the body 12 is of conventional construction, such seam 14 being spaced inwardly from theedges of the waistband 10 and the body 12 to provide the waistband inner flap 20 and the body inner flap 22 when the seam 14 is completed.

In the second stage of the process of the present invention shown in Figure 2, the bottom waistband lining 24 is added. The bottom Waistband lining 24 comprises a strip of lining material (as distinguished from the relatively heavy fabric material of which the waistband 10 and body 12 are made) which has been overlapped along its longitudinal axis. A line of stitching 26 which is closely adjacent to the free ends of the bottom waistband lining 24 joins such free ends together. In the stage of the process of the present invention shown in Figure 2 the free end portion of the bottom waistband lining 24 is placed adjacent the body 12, with such free end portion of the bottom waistband lining 24 being juxtaposed to the body inner flap .22, and the bottom waistband lining 24 is joined to the body 12 and waistband 10 by the line of stitching 28. The line of stitching 28, as seen in Figure 2, is placed adjacent the line of stitching 26 which joins the free end portion of the bottom waistband lining 24 together and is positioned intermediate such line of stitching 26 and the looped end of bottom waistband lining 24. The line of stitching 28 is closely adjacent to the line of stitching which forms the seam 14.

While in the illustrated embodiment of the process of the present invention the seam 14 is first formed and then the bottom waistband lining 24 is added, it is to be understood that the process of the present invention comprehends the formation of the seam 14 and the insertion of the bottom waistband lining 24 in one operation.

The next stage of the process of the present invention is shown in Figure 3. In the stage shown in Figure 3, the top waistband lining 30 and its associated canvas liner 32 are joined to the waistband 10. The top waistband lining 30 is formed of lining material similar to that of bottom waistband lining 24. The canvas liner 3-2 is formed of coarser and stiifer material than the top waistband lining 30 and provides support for the waistband 10.

The top waistband lining 30 is looped inwardly at both its top end 34 and its bottom end 36. The top end 34 of top waistband lining 30 is overlapped, and is disposed on the inside of the trousers. The top marginal portion of the waistband 10 is sandwiched intermediate the overlapped top end 34 of top waistband lining 30 and the top portion of canvas liner 32. The line of stitching 38 which extends through the canvas liner 32, the waistband 10, and both of the overlapped flaps of the top end 34 of top waistband lining 30 joins the canvas liner 32, waistband 10 and the top waistband lining 30 together. The bottom portion of the canvas liner 32 is received in the looped bottom end 36 of top waistband lining 30. The line of stitching 40 joins together the inside flap 42 of top waistband lining 30 and the bottom portion of the canvas liner 32.

Upon the completion of the stage of the process of the present invention shown in Figure 3, the waistband 10 is then folded along a fold line which is spaced a slight dis tance below the topmost edge of canvas liner 32 and below the looped top end 34 so that the face of the top waistband lining 30 overlaps the inside of the waistband 10, the waistband inner flap 20, the body inner flap 22, and the top portions of the pockets 16 and 18. It is to be;

noted that the height of the top waistband lining 30 'fi'om its top end 34 to its bottom end 36 is appreciably greater than the height of the waistband in such folded disposition, and as seen in Figure 4, the top waistband lining 30 overlaps both the waistband inner flap 20 and the body inner flap 22 and an appreciable portion of the bottom waistband lining 24. The garment is preferably pressed, so that the fold line in the waistband 10, which fold line is designated 44 in Figure 4, is preserved.

The final stage of the process of the present invention comprises the insertion of a felling stitch 46 joining the top waistband lining 30 and the portion of the canvas liner 32 embraced within the bottom end 36 of top waistband lining 30 to the facing flap 48 of bottom waistband lining 24. In the region of the pockets 16 and 18, the

felling stitch 46 extends through the pockets 16 and 18, such pockets being intermediate the top waistband lining 30 and the bottom waistband lining 24.

The finished construction of the present invention is shown in Figure 4. As seen therein, the finished construction does not present any unfinished edge to the viewer. Instead, the viewer is presented with the looped bottom of the bottom waistband lining 24, and the looped top and bottom ends 34 and 36 of the top waistband lining 36, the latter being felled to the bottom waistband lining 24. The raising of the bottom waistband lining 24 presents a clean juncture without the free edge of any ply of material being visible. Moreover, the seam 14 cannot be seen, as the same is obscured by the double ply of the bottom waistband lining 24.

In the embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 5, inside buttons 50 are provided. The stitching 52 for anchoring the buttons 50 extends through the top waistband lining 3t"; onto the canvas liner 32. It will be seen that such buttonhole stitching 52 is not visible from the front of the trousers construction, as the same is covered by the waistband 10. If desired, in the construction shown in Figure 5, a pair of canvas liners may be provided juxtaposed to each other, with the buttonhole stitching 52 being anchored to the innermost of such pair of canvas liners.

The construction of the present invention has been illustrated for a full waistband. However, it is to be understood that the construction of the present invention may be applied to a half waistband.

The construction of the present invention may be effected with conventional sewing machines and requires no hand sewing whatsoever. It closely simulates a hand top construction, but may be effected at but a minor fraction of the cost of a hand top.

The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof and, accordingly, reference should be made to the appended claim, rather than to the foregoing specification as indicating the scope of the invention.

I claim:

In a pair of trousers, a waistband having an inwardly looped upper edge, a body, the bottom edge of said waistband and the top edge of said body being inwardly folded, a seam joining the bottom of said waistband to the top of said body, said seam being spaced a small distance from the inwardly folded bottom edge of said waistband and the inwardly folded top edge of said body thereby providing an upwardly extending inner waistband flap and a downwardly extending inner body flap, an overlapped bottom waistband lining, with the looped end of said bottom waistband lining being spaced below said seam and the overlapped free edges of said bottom waistband lining being secured to said body intermediate the body and the inner flap of said body at said seam, a top waistband lining, said top waistband lining having looped top and bottom ends, the top looped end of said top waistband lining being juxtaposed to and stitched to the inside ply of the looped upper edge of said waistband, with the height of said top waistband lining intermediate its top and bottom ends being appreciably greater than the distance between the looped upper edge of said waistband and said seam, and with the edge of the bottom looped end of said top waistband lining being felled to the inside ply of said bottom waistband lining by stitches which extend across said edge of said bottom looped end, and a canvas liner, said canvas liner extending from intermediate the looped plies of the upper edge of said waistband to the looped bottom end of said top waistband lining, with said canvas liner being secured to the inside ply of the looped upper edge of the waistband and to the top looped end of said top waistband lining by a line of stitching, and to the ply of the looped bottom end of said top waistband lining which is disposed intermediate the main portion of said top waistband lining and said bottom waistband lining by a line of stitching.

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